Itagaki: The PSP's battle is with the GBA

Tomonobu Itagaki has been known to say some pretty off-the-wall things, but his recent comments about the PSP left us scratching our heads. We're not sure if the man is a genious, or if he'd be better off in a loony bin.

Speaking to Gamasutra, the Team NINJA executive producer said the PSP isn't in direct competition with Nintendo's DS. Instead, Sony's handheld is battling it out with last generation's GameBoy Advance. "... the PSP needs to defeat ... the predecessor, the Game Boy Advance," he said. "Because Nintendo has made all their profits, and made this fan-base off of the success of the GBA. What Sony really needed to do was get those key Game Boy users and broaden the market."

Itagaki has used this line of thought and the fact that he believes the PSP is too powerful to reason why he and his team decided to develop their next Ninja Gaiden title for the DS. Yes, we know now that the man is insane.